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Saturday February 18:

Taubman Museum & Community High School.

The Fourth Annual Marginal Arts Parade

11am – noon Pre-parade assembly/staging area will be at Community High School. 302 Campbell Ave SE. WE MARCH AT NOON!

The Parade will march a route that will loop back to behind the Taubman Museum (Norfolk Ave & Market St S.E.) where The Absurdist Street Carnival will receive us.

10am Sweded Film festivals competition: Teams MUST meet up at The Shadowbox on February 18th at 10am to be briefed on the details of the challenge. Film MUST be ready and returned to The Shadowbox at 10am, February 19th.

2:00 – 3:00 pmBe Blank Consort performs experimental sound poetry in the Liminal Gallery at Community High School. Poet’s from across America have gathered here to perform simultaneous poems composed through the mail-art network. Free.

3:00 – 5:00 pm at Exclamations at 206 Market Square participate in the grass-roots Star City Shadow School Workshops brought to you buy local Roanokers, Post Neo-Absurdists, and Friends from Ohio, New York and Seattle Washington. Free.

7:30 – 9pm Vaudeville Night at the June McBroom Theatre at CHS. Join us for an evening of live music by Another Roadside Attraction and the Big Nasty Jazz Band, Magic and Sideshow Wonders by Nelson Oliver, and Tap by Blacksburg’s Junk DNA and Floyd’s Rhythm Fire Dance Company. $5.00 at the door!

The Aesthetic Document, at WVTF public radio art galleries: Two- and three-dimensional work that explores the idea of document as art. Exhibition will run from February 1 through till March.

The exhibit will include an opening from 5 to 7 on February 17 including a musical performance from 5:30pm to 6:30pm – Music as Document. Performers will include sopranos Judith Cline, Helena Brown and Heather Albrecht; mezzo soprano Ada Lis Jimena, violinist Benedict Goodfriend; clarinetist Bruce McGarvey, vocalist Mike Mitchell and pianist Cara Ellen Modisett and the audience will be invited to participate in an impromptu composition at the end of the performance.